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Dell, Intel Form Connectivity Consortium for ‘Internet of Things’
Dell, Intel, and Samsung are among the six companies who have come together to establish a new industry consortium focused on improving interoperability and defining the connectivity requirements for...
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Hackers Help Chipotle, Applegate Re-Engineer the Future of Dining
Food+Tech Connect's recent Hack//Dining hackathon in New York City has yielded some insightful solutions to big problems faced by the dining industry. The call to “re-engineer the future of food” was...
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Southwest's 'LUV Seat' Project Will Upcycle 43 Acres of Used Leather, Create...
On Tuesday, Southwest Airlines announced the launch of LUV Seat: Repurpose with Purpose, a global sustainability initiative to upcycle 43 acres of used leather seat coverings into new products that...
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New Research Says Biostimulation Can Help Produce Algae 300 Times Faster
A research team at AlgaStar Inc, a Florida-based algae cultivation company, has reported that biological simulation has yielded a 300 percent increase in algae growth rate over normal conditions. Based...
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GE's Ecomagination Initiative Targets GHG Emissions from Canada’s Oil Sands
General Electric (GE) has announced the launch of an up to $1 million ecomagination open innovation challenge to help accelerate technology development in Canada’s oil sands.The Innovation Challenge...
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Fans More Likely to Attend Sporting Events When Stadiums Compost and Recycle
A new survey by the Shelton Group found that nearly one-third of Americans would be more likely to attend a game or concert if the stadium recycled and composted, and one in five say they would buy...
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Effective Sustainability Initiatives Garner Accolades from Cannes, IPA
The word sustainability, first used around 1727, is derived from the Latin sustinere (tenere, to hold; sus, up). By that definition, sustainability just got a boost at the recent Cannes Film Festival...
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Airbnb Rebrand Invites You to Bélo-ng
Airbnb has a fresh coat of paint – including a new website and mobile app, and Bélo - a new logo that invites you to 'belong anywhere.' In addition to the rebranding, the company has tried to redesign...
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The Sudden Materiality Shock
This is the first in a four-part series by Ralph Thurm and Nick De Ruiter examining Sustainability Context.Spring 2014 seems to be the moment in time where Materiality suddenly appeared on the screen...
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Study: Companies Must Shift from Touting Sustainability to Tangibly Impacting...
Only a third of consumers regularly consider sustainability in their purchasing decisions, according to a global study by Accenture and Havas Media RE:PURPOSE, which reveals the reasons for the...
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From Economic Brand Value to Holonomic Brand Value
You may be wondering about the word holonomics. Although the word was first used in 1896 to describe a branch of mathematics, we coined a new definition for the word, which can be thought of as the...
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Harris Poll: Americans More Worried About Food Waste Than Air Pollution
Almost two-thirds of grocery shoppers in the US (63 percent) are more concerned with food waste than other issues such as air pollution (59 percent), water shortages (57 percent), climate change (53...
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Timberland Cuts GHGs 50%, Surpasses Renewable Energy Goal Two Years Early
Timberland announced Wednesday it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 53 percent since 2006 (achieving almost half of that [23 percent] in 2013) and it now derives 31.4 percent of its...
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The #CVSEffect in Action: Wagon Train Edition — IKEA, GM, Mars Stand Up for...
Previous articles in this series talked about leading businesses taking bold steps on their own for the common good — because it's the right thing to do — even if it costs the company financially in...
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Industry Associations Launch New Conflict Mineral Guide
Seven of the world's largest industry associations have collaborated with Source Intelligence and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP to launch a web-based training module within the Conflict Minerals...
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Australian Government Backtracks on Carbon Tax
The Australian Senate has voted 39-32 to repeal the country's carbon tax after years of fierce political debate.The tax on the country’s biggest polluters was passed by a previous government....
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AT&T Commits $18 Million to Youth Mentoring Programs
AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson joined President Obama today to commit $18 million to education programs with a youth mentoring component. This funding supports the company’s goal of...
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Company Develops Coconut Husk-Based Filters to Treat Wastewater
Premier Tech Aqua (PTA), a business unit of the Environmental Technologies Group of Premier Tech, has announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in its compact biofiltration technologies for the...
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WWF, IKEA Release Better Cotton Initiative Progress Report
The WWF and IKEA have released a new report highlighting the impacts of their work with the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), as the organization restates its aim to make up 30 percent of global cotton...
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UCS: 'Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto' Falls Short of a Revolution
The word “manifesto” rarely conjures up positive connotations. That word brings to my mind Karl Marx’s famous tome, at best, and, at worst, images of a bearded man in a remote cabin. Regardless, it’s a...
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